Combined grain measure and tally



(No Model.)

. o. D. MQDANIBL.

(10MB-INED GRAIN MEASURE AND TALLY.

No. 374,613. Patented Deo. 13, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEETCE.

OSCAR D. MCDANIE'L, OF RIDGWAY, ILLINOIS.v

COMBINED GRAIN MEASURE AND TALLY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,613, dated December 13, 1887.

Application yfiled August 27, y1887. Serial No. 248,054. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, OscAE D. MCDANIEL, a citlzen of the United States, residing at Ridgway, in the county of Gallatin and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Grain Measu rer, Register, and Bag-Holder; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the artto which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to a combined `grainmeasurer, register, and bag-holder; and my said invention consists of a hopper with central partition, whereby two compartments are formed each of a known capacity, say one-4 half bushel, having sliding bottoms, and at the top of which is a perforated slide operated by crank-handle, by moving which slide the entrance to the measuring-compartments of the hopper is alternately opened and closed. Connected with this slide are the registering devices, whereby, at each movement thereof, the amount of grain passing through the hopper is recorded, and at the bottom of the hopper is arranged the sack into which the grain is' discharged as measured.

-The object of this invention is to provide a simple device for the use of farmers and others,

whereby grain may be quickly measured either as it is delivered from the thrashing-machine or as it is being filled into the sacks; and to this end I proceed as follows, reference now being had to the accompanying drawings for a better understanding of the details of construction and arrangement of the parts composing the same, and in which drawings- Figure l represents a view in perspective of a combined grain-measurer, register, and bag-holder constructed according to my invention, portions of the casing of the sam-e being removed or broken away to show the interior mechanism. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional View illustrating the operating parts of the slide and its connections.

Ais thehopper, of any desired or appropriate size,into which the grain to be measured is fed, having inclined ends A', and at the bottom divided byacentral partition, A2, into two equalsizedcompartments B, B, of aknown capacity,

say onehalf bushel. The bottoms B of these compartmentsB are arranged to slide, as'shown in Fig. 1, whereby to discharge the contents thereof, and at the top of the compartments B, between them and the bottom of the hopper proper, is arranged a slide or cut-off, C, at the center of which is an opening, c, for the purposes as will presently appear. This slide C is adapted to be moved back and forth to al ternatelybring the opening c thereof over one or the other of the compartments B, whereby the entrance, from the hopper to onel of said compartments is cut off and opened into the other. Simultaneously with the movement of the slide C the bottom B of the compartment Bthat is closed by said slide C is drawn out, so as to discharge the contents thereof into the bag that is suspended upon hooks or otherwise fastened at the bottom of the compartments B. To move the slide C, whereby the grain is permitted to alternately fill the compartments B, and at the same time automatically register thejnumber of bushels passing through the hopper, the following devices are employed:

Pivoted to one end of the slide C is a short rocker-arm, E, whose other end is keyed to a shaft, F, extending transversely across the hopper A and mounted in bearings at each side thereof. At the outer end of this shaft F is a crank-arm, F', by which said shaft is moved or rocked back and forth and through it the slide C is operated. Upon this shaft F are two gear-wheels, G H, which mesh upon opposite sides thereof with a large crownwheel, I, which wheel bearsupon its face a scale indicating half-bushels, as at I. These wheels G H are not keyed upon the shaft F, but are connected thereto and moved thereby in the following manner: g is a hub keyed to the shaft F and moving therewith, which hub enters a socket, h', in the face of the gearwheels G H, which are supplied at their bottom edge with a pawl, g', which engages ratchetteeth f, formed around the socket 71. of the wheels G H and thereby move said wheels.

'The ratchet-teeth of each of these wheels G H face in opposite directions, so that upon one movementof the shaft F but one wheel will IOO other wheel will slip over the ratchet-teeth,

, revolution thereof indicates ten bushels as having passed through the slide C. At each revo lution of this wheel Ia spur, t', on the periphery thereof, engages with a smaller wheel, J, and causes a movement of one space thereof, which registers each ten bushels, and adjacent the wheel J is a smaller wheel, K, which is operated by a spur, j, on said wheel J at each revolution of said wheel J and indicates one hundred bushels.

The operation of the parts is as follows: Each movement of the slide C moves the large Wheel I one space, which is, say, ahalf-bushel, so that it requires twenty movements of the slide to make one entire revolution of the wheel I, whereupon by the engagement of the spurt' thereon with the wheel J said wheel J is moved one space and indicates ten bushels. Another revolution of the large wheel I indicates twenty bushels upon the wheel J, and so on until one revolution ofsaid Wheel J is made, when a spur, j, thereon engages the teeth of the third wheel K, and said wheel K is operated or moved one point and indicates one hundred bushels, and as this wheel K has ten spaces it will register one thousand bushels.

L are pointers secured adjacent the wheels to indicate the scale upon the same.

As here shown, the sliding bottoms B of the compartments B are made to slide or be moved by hand; but if desired they may be arranged to be automatically moved by connection with the crank-shaft F, whereby said bottoms, as well as the sliding cut-oli C, may be alternately operated by the movement of said shaft.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows, viz:

The combination, in a combined grain-measurer, register, and sack-holder, with the hopper A, having central partition, A2, and compartments B B, with sliding bottom B', and cut-off C c, of the registering devices composed of shaft F, rocker-arm E,connecting said shaft and slide, wheels G g, and H h, formed with pawl and ratchet g' f, secured to said shaft, large wheel l fi, indicating each bushel and adapted to be moved one space upon each movement of the slide C, and wheels Jj K k,

indicating ten and one hundred bushels, all

constructed and adapted to operate substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

' OSCAR D. MCDANIEL.

Vitnesses:

Jas. H. HEMPHILL,

J oHN F. GLAss. 

